Listening to happy #muziek increases #creativiteit.
Listening to cheerful music can help generate more innovative solutions compared to listening to silence. Creativity is an important feature in our complex, fast-changing world, as it allows us to generate innovative solutions to a wide range of problems and provide new ideas. The question of what makes creative cognition possible has long been studied and although music has previously shown to benefit cognition, little is known about how listening to music specifically affects creative cognition.
Creative effect of music
To investigate the effect of music on creative cognition, 155 participants had full questionnaires and were split into experimental groups. Each group listened to one of the four different types of music that were categorized as calm, happy, sad or anxious. This depends on their emotional valence (positive, negative) and excitement (high, low). While a control group listened to silence. After the music began to play, participants performed various cognitive tasks that tested their diverse and converging creative thinking. Participants who came up with the most original and useful solutions to a task scored higher in diverse creativity, while participants who came up with the best possible solution to a task scored higher in convergent creativity.
